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Show Delta Mother Dies Sunday Rites Wednesday Mrs. Clara Kingsford McClellan, 72, wife of Wilford McClellan, died at the family home in Delta Sunday Sun-day near 4 a.m., after a lingering illness. Mrs. McClellan was a life-long member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and as long as her health permitted had been active in LDS organizations. She had been a Relief Society teacher for a number of years and was a faithful tithe-payer. She also had been active in Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Her kindly ways and friendly nature had won her many friends in life. She was born Oct. 6, 1878, at Franklin, Idaho, a daughter of Edward Ed-ward and Karie Peterson Kings-ford. Kings-ford. Her early life was lived at Coveville, Idaho, where she met Mr. McClellan in 1907. They were married in the Logan temple May 13, 1908. Their first home was made at Payson that fall, and then they came to Delta in 1909, among the early settlers when Burtner was still the name of the new community. In 1911 they moved to Clearfield, Clear-field, Utah, and then in 1913 went to Idaho. They lived there until 1922, when they returned to Delta, where the family has lived since. Mrs. McClellan was the mother of seven children, of whom five are surviving. Suriving are her husband, at Delta, two sons, LeVer and LaRee McClellan, Delta; three daughters, Mrs. Zola Meinburg, Mrs. Melba Willden, Delta, and Mrs. Melva Parrish, Chowchilla, Cal.; 17 grandchildren. grand-children. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. by Bishop E. L. Moody in the old Delta First ward chapel. Burial was in the Delta cemetery, ceme-tery, under the direction of L. N. Nickle and Sons mortuary. |